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Canada Gairdner Global Health Awardees

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Shizuo Akira M.D., Ph.D., Director and Professor, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka, Japan

for ground breaking discoveries and definition of the family of Toll like receptors and the array of microbial compounds that they recognize to provide innate resistance to infection

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Adrian Peter Bird Ph.D.,
The Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh

for pioneering discoveries on DNA methylation and its role in gene expression

Howard Cedar, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

for pioneering discoveries on DNA methylation and its role in gene expression

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Jules A. Hoffmann Ph.D., Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS and University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg

for ground breaking discoveries and definition of the family of Toll like receptors and the array of microbial compounds that they recognize to provide innate resistance to infection

Aharon Razin, Ph.D.,
Department Developmental Biology and Cancer Research, Hebrew University, Jerusalem

for pioneering discoveries on DNA methylation and its role in gene expression

Canada Gairdner Wightman Award
Michael Hayden M.B., Ch.B., Ph.D. FRCP (C), FRSC,
Canada Research Chair in Human Genetics & Molecular Medicine Centre for Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

for his outstanding national and international leadership for medical genetics, entrepreneurship and humanitarianism

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Canada Gairdner Global Health Award
Robert Black M.D., MPH, Professor, Chairman, Edgar Berman Professor in International Health. Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

for his significant contributions to improving child survival and particularly for critical clinical and epidemiological studies to reduce childhood diarrheal deaths

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